Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-06-01
CANNOT RECOVER.
Ex-LIEurENANr-aovERN0R OF
NORTH CAROLINA HoPELHssLY I'LL.
An Encouraging Crop Report "A Question
Of Desth-warrants-The Pro-
hibition Fight.
Especial telegram 10 the Dispatch.l

RALEIGH, N. c., May 31.-Governor
Scales left for Chapel Hill this AFTERNOON 10
attend the commencement. He VIII Detne
guest OF President Battle.
State. Senator Kape Elias. OF Macon
county, arrived here this afternoon. lie
says that x.LieuienantG Governor RoOin-
son has Brighrs disease, aud he has no
hope OF his recovery. DR.. John Hey WIZ
liams, OF Williams, has gone to give ko'
linsOn medical aid.
Senator Elias says he has just made a
tour OF the counties west oil the Blue
Ridge. The crops are the largest ever
planted and in the best condition ever
known. The farmers were never more
hopciul.S They have used far less CONNER
cial fertilizers than ever before and hive
given close attention to good farming.
Efforts are being made TO induce Gov.
ernor Scales TO permit the organization OF
colored companies Of infantry at Whining
ton and Charlotte. Application has been
made for the organization OF white infan-
try company at Greensboro.
Goorgianna Larkin, a negro child, fell
out OF bed at Wilmington last night. Her
chin rested on the foot bed-rail and the
back OF her head against the wall. Her
dead body was found in this position.
The people OF Wilmington are somewhat
excited over the rigid enforcement OF the
iTon.clad Sunday law, under whose proyi-
sions nothing save medicine can be sold
not even milk.
QUESTION or DEATH-wARRANrs.
Governor Scales has written Sheriff Man.
ming, Of New Hanover, that perhaps there
is an error In his issuing the de ,th-warrant
Tor an Iopaa tha hurVlqr IN no
hanged June 18th. The death-sentence was
first passed last October. The law author
izing the Governor TO issue death-warrdnts
was rassed in March last. The Supreme
Court wl decide whether the law Is er pdrte
fdcto or not. II they decide that it is not,
Jones will have 10 he rescntenced at the
next term OF the New Hanover Criminal
Court.
Your correspondent had an interview to-
day with n. 3. Broughton in regard TO the
prohibition election. Broughton says that
next Monday LOCAL option elections will be
held at the following points: Raleigh, Fank-
linton, Louisburg, Henderson, Oxford, Dur
ham, GoldsborO, Washington, Winston,
Charlotte. and Concord. He says Raleigh
will give $50 dry majority, and that Dur
ham will certainly go dry.
attracts many people here, not only from
many points IN this State, but from all over
the South. Last nights exercises were
very interesting. The graduates are Misses
Emmle j. FaSOn, Lille T.. Rouse, Nora
Cole, Pauline Faison, Annie ID. Faucette,
Ialla Oates. Florence Yestal, and Lula
Whitaker. This evening the concert was
given and attracted a notable audience.
wAKE-FOREsT COLLEGE.
Great preparations are in progress ut
Wake Forest for the commencement next
week. The friends Of this admirable col
legc will be present in great force. The
prosperlty OF the institution is a cause OF
Joy to every BAPTIST in The State. The col
lege now has a securely-inyestedf fund OF no
less than S172 900, which is likely in a
couple Of years to be 100000.
hallway NEWS.
Special interest is felt in the building Of
the AlbemaTle and Raleigh Railroad from
Nashville. Nash county, TO Raleigh. It is
assumed TO be a certainty, and will give
this section a deep-water outlet
The Scotland-Ne branch Of the vii.
mineton and Weldon railway is to he eX-
tended from Scotland Neck to Green
vile, Pitt county, it is stated. 1t VIII de-
yelop a rich cotton and corn country.
CURRENT NEWS NOTES.
Dir. Preston l.. BrldgerS, late Consul at
Monteydeo, Uruguay. has an extensive
grocery business at Wilmington, and will
devote himself thereto. He does not relish
South American cholera epidemic,. Mr..
Edward j. Hill, who Is to dill Mr..
Rrideers's position, is from Duplin county,
but for some weeks has been at Golds1orO'
l.. 10. - = 30
but sound Democrat and rather prOmi.
nent In politics. lie was IN the State
Senate I'm 1882.
\ great number OF persons are passing
here on their way to Chapel Mn to the
university commencement, which begins
tomorrow.
A report TO the penitentiary authorities
states that convict who attempted TO escape
from the st0ckade near Culler's. on the
Cape-Fear and Yadkin.Valley railroad, was
shot and killed.